Conservatives love the the flat tax but Cain's crazy 999 plan resembles a VAT consumption tax. In a fury to cover his right flank on the 999 plan, the Cain campaign has apparently gone out of its way to scrub any references to VAT and from his website.
The scoring document for Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan — along with references to a value added tax (VAT) — are missing from the campaign’s website. And links to the plan from critical articles written in recent weeks no longer work. For example, writing in the New York Times on October 11, Bruce Bartlett critiqued Cain’s plan, writing, “… attention is being drawn to his platform, especially what he calls the 9-9-9 tax plan.” But clicking on that link today, sends the reader to an error page which says: “Like an Obama policy, this 404 page gets you nowhere.” It used to go here: http://www.hermancain.com/images/economicgrowth.pdf Also broken is this: http://www.hermancain.com/docs/999_Scoring_Tables.pdf